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Raisin in the Sun Study Guide Poem-Act 1 Scene 1 1.Where is the story taking place? 2.What is a "dream deferred"? 3.What is the tone of the poem? 4.What is a "settled woman"? 5.What is "slubborness"? 6.What does Walter do for a living? 7.List the members of the Younger family. 8.What kind of check is the family expecting? 9.Identify the relationship between Walter and Ruth. 10.What is Walter's dream? 11.What is Mama's dream? 12.Why does Ma ma slap Benie? Vocabulary indictment vindicated affecting deferred beseeching futile doggedly furtively outrage clinically permeated unobtrusively anguish neurotic conspicuous Act 1 Scene 2 1.Who is Joseph Asagai? 2.Why is Beneatha pleased with the robes Asagai brings her? How does Asagai react? 3.What is Beneatha's opinion about a relationship with Asagai? 4.Why does Beneatha thank Asagai for the nickname of Alaiyo? 5.What has Mama thought of doing with the money? 6.Why doesn't Mama want her son to run a liquor store? 7.What is Walter's reaction to Mama's refusal to invest in a liquor store? 8.Besides his concerns for money, what does Mama say she notices about Walter? 9.Walter tries to explain his discontent, both about his job and about his future. Why is he discontent? 10.Who functions as the head of the household? 11.When Mama refers to being "Proud of...what we done," to what is she referring? 12.Why does Mama abruptly tell Walter about Ruth's plan regarding the baby? 13.Explain Mama's statement:"You are a disgrace to the memory of your father." 14.Describe the mood at the end of Act One. Act 2 Scene 1 1.What is Beneatha's and Walter's mood at the beginning of this scene? 2.Explain George's comment:"We're going to the theatre-We're not going to be in it." 3.What is Beneatha's definition of assimilation? 4.What does Walter mean by" Here I am a giant-surrounded by ants."? 5.Who is Prometheus? 6.What has Mama done with part of the ten thousand dollars? 7.What concerns Ruth about the house? 8.What is unusual about Claybourne Park? 9.Why does Walter feel useless? 10. What is a cracker? Act 2 Scene 2 1.Explain the disagreement between Beneatha and George rgarding education. 2.Explain Walter's attitude about his job. 3.What is the Green Hat? 4.How much money does Mama entrust to Walter? 5.What does Mama reveal when she decides to use the rest of the money for what her children want? 6.What is the fantasy Walter describes to Travis? Act 2 Scene 3 1.How has Walter changed in this scene? 2.What dream does Mr. Lindner mention? 3.Explain the irony in Beneatha's statement:"This friends, is the welcoming committee!" and"Thirty pieces and not a coin less!" 4.What mood best describes the famil's reaction to Mr. Lindner's offer? 5.What does Travis get his Grandma? 6.Who is Bobo? 7.Why does Walter say"That money is made out of my father's flesh"? 8.Who undergoes the most dramatic mood changes in Act Two? 9.Approximately how much time passes in Act Two? Act 3 1.What did Beneatha once believe was being like God? 2.Where does Asagai want to take Beneatha? 3.Who is listening to Asagai and Beneatha's conversation? 4.Who is "The Man"? 5.What is Walter's plan? 6.Who are the smartest people according to Walter? 7.Why does Mama insist that Travis stay in the room when Walter speaks to Mr. Lindner? 8.Although Beneatha has no sympathy for Walter, how does Mama defend him? 9.Who is most unhappy about not moving to the new house? 10.What does Mam return to the apartment for? 11.What has happened at the end of the story? What dream has been fulfilled?
Student Projects
Project 1 A Raisin in the Sun/MLK I Have a Dream (A Mr. Kanach Project)
Project 2 Students did a vodcast of an interview of Walter Younger from Raisin in the Sun.
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